Further Resources

Fiona - TEXT CHAT | Nihaya - E Mail | Tony - Voice | George - Virtual Worlds | Other

Fiona - TEXT CHAT

• Lesson Plans/Sample Tasks

http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_lesson22.htm
http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_soft16.htm#compton

• Software and know-how

http://tesl-ej.org/ej25/int.html Use of chat in ESL/EFL (chat platforms, Tapped In and Yahoo Messenger)
http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_soft16.htm#compton how to use ICQ chat software
http://www.geocities.com/vance_stevens/esl_home.htm setting up a CALL lab/ web resources for CALL managers

• Public ESL/EFL Chat forums

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Learn/Type_Ex.asp?L=ESL&HU=ESL.asp
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Penpals_and_Communicating_with_Others/</span>

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Nihaya - E Mail

VIDEOS

• Learn English 70 - Computers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GaG1T8-v9k&eurl=http://cmediatedc.wikispaces.com/3.E+Mail

• How about.. Education!? :Email

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bn7V4z-PU

• Learn Business English Writing for ESL - Email Tune-up 01

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDkLz0RS_PU

IMAGES

• The email's image 1

http://www.uvsc.edu/email/images/email-at1.gif

• The email's image 2

http://www.vuu.edu/images/email5.gif

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Tony - Voice

• Voice software:

http://www.yackpack.com/walkietalkiewidget.html
http://www.yackpack.com/
http://www.sightspeed.com/

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George - Virtual Worlds

• Video

*Web 2.0 and language learning. An excellent place to begin research http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S07YGkSrug

*Education in Second Life: Explore the Possibilities (very nice video, for all educators)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGR9q43dag&feature=related

*English village update from august 2007 a good basice tour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mwlTrIak4c

*Another description of English village by a rather comical avatar with a real time video cam feed in a cube on his head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZHeL0TP4cc

*Explanation of the use of “chatbox”, an automated basic sentence generating robot. This also shows the limitations of "bots" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmOLU4fvXS8

The onion link in english village… links to other english classes and resources in second life a… an explanation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMorTRcHSVM

*Second life english assessment tool - shows some of the possibilities for language assessment – selecting objects etc.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktqee5Zp8lI

*Pronunciation… speakers corner – voice thread in second life… users can record their voice and record a question… using voice thread to practice pronunciation.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63IMAtUsukA&feature=related

*Second life speech tools - robot voice demonstration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tb1wWqGZ8&feature=related

*Amazing second life machine voice generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a209xEeJjL0&feature=related

*Machine voice recognition and generation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muc3ADlQDTQ&feature=related

*Same video as above but this time on a feed in second life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muc3ADlQDTQ&feature=related

*How to set up voice chatting in second life – setting up your audio etc etc. and buttons on the navigation screen in second life.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zz54h1lu_w

*Another by the same guy showing attempt to send a voice message to a group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGXKTY-RDbM

*video tutorials for second life. [[http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley%3C/span%3E%3C/span|http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley</span]]>

Other

• RSS:

RSS - this links to our RSS page, where you will find a number of links on English Language Teaching and technology.

• Designing a Wikipage tips

http://www.designinquiry.wikispaces.net/wikitext
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Sandbox
http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Widgets